The Two-Triangle Universe of Plato’s Timaeus and the In(de)finite Diversity of the Universe

DOI10.1515/APEIRON-2020-0064zbMATH Open1523.01002MaRDI QIDQ6136319FDOQ6136319

Authors: Salomon Ofman 

Publication date: 29 August 2023

Published in: Apeiron (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologytrianglespolyhedrons\textit{Timaeus}four elementskhôra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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